Applied AI Engineer

Nevis Wealth • New York, NY

16h

About The Position

About Nevis Nevis is building the world’s first AI wealth management platform. In just 9 months, Nevis has grown to have over $50 billion of assets under management on its platform and is on track to have over $100 billion by the end of this year. Nevis is also backed by world leading investors and has raised a total of $40 million from Sequoia Capital, ICONIQ and Ribbit. Together it makes Nevis one of the highest funded and fastest growing Series A startups in Europe. The Role We are looking for a talented and driven AI Engineer to join our core team at Nevis where you will play a pivotal role in shaping the next-generation AI-first wealthtech product. You will address critical challenges faced by our business clients by building LLM-driven agentic automation pipelines. You’ll work with cutting-edge LLM models and collaborate with leading vendors to enhance our product’s reasoning capabilities and elevate the quality of our models’ outputs to industry-leading standards - constantly raising the bar higher. As part of a small, world-class team of engineers and product builders, including the former Head of AI at Revolut, you’ll have a unique opportunity to make a profound impact on one of the world’s largest industries.

Requirements

• Hands on experience with LLMs
• Proven track record of solving real-world problems with AI / ML
• Advanced statistical and data analysis skills
• STEM degree from top university
• Passionate about transformative AI technologies
• Product-driven mindset: prioritizing practical ML solutions for better client outcomes
• Proactive problem solver with "get it done" attitude
• Excellent communication skills for effective team collaboration
• Thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment and take ownership end-to-end

Nice To Haves

• Prior experience in AI startups
• Strong publications or GitHub profile

Responsibilities

• Design and build LLM and ML-powered products and features across Nevis’ platform.
• Collaborate with engineers and product builders to bring new AI capabilities from experiment to production.
• Establish best practices and design novel approaches for AI development, testing, observability, and reliability.
• Continuously monitor and improve AI products performance and reasoning quality.
• Partner with product and design teams to prototype and iterate on new AI features and products.
• Stay ahead of the latest advances in Gen AI space, including agentic systems, reasoning capabilities and context engineering.

Benefits

• Work alongside a high-calibre founding team backed by some of the best investors in the world.
• A fast-paced, high-growth environment with the opportunity to shape how the business operates.
• Be part of a mission-driven company transforming the wealth management industry with huge potential for global impact.
• Competitive salary and benefits package, including company equity.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level